This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.

Pulled from the rubble of one of the worst modern tragedies, a steel crossbeam became a symbol of hope for New Yorkers.

A working monastery hidden away in Brooklyn once abutted the location of a former inebriate's home.

This cannonball stands as a reminder of the final act of a fleeting governor amidst a revolution.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

After decades of research and rumors, Little Zion Church was proven to be his final resting place.

The mysterious canine hides atop a drain pipe on the back of the building, some say as a sneaky shoutout to Yale.

A glittering Thai Buddhist temple in suburban Pennsylvania.

The headquarters of the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, complete with Rosicrucian pyramids, all in the Pennsylvania woods.

The United States' oldest Episcopal church still in active use.

A vision of beautiful Hindu architecture in the middle of the American South.

An ornate Buddhist temple located in an Atlanta suburb, built by and for the Laotian community.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

A replica of where the Last Supper was held.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

The fountains of the U.S. Navy Memorial are annually salted with water from the Seven Seas as part of a nautical ritual.

An overlooked oasis of quiet on the grounds of Washington's monumental basilica.